SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 430 – Making A Movie During Covid-19
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Hamza Zaman, the Writer/Director/Actor of a Thriller, ‘The Institute’ (2022). Hamza Zaman talks about how they produced that movie during Covid-19. Other topics are how he pitches movie ideas to investors and writes scripts toward a certain budget range.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Hamza Zaman.
He is the Writer/Director/Actor of a Thriller, The Institute (2022). Hamza Zaman talks about how they produced that movie during Covid-19. Other topics are how he pitches movie ideas to investors and writes scripts toward a certain budget range.
Stick around at the end of the episode when the tables turn and Hamza Zaman asks our host Ashley Scott Meyers questions on filmmaking and distribution.
You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here or through iTunes by clicking here.
You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Hamza Zaman on IMDb
- Hamza Zaman on Twitter
- Hamza Zaman on Instagram
- The Institute Trailer
- The Institute on IMDb
- The Institute on Facebook
- The Institute website
- SYS's From Concept to Completion Screenwriting Course
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.